DEAF03 Open Territories

The Open Territories program at DEAF03 offer a diverse public forum of debate and investigation through the presentation of individual art works alongside a series of three user interactive workspace projects.

DEAF03 Open Territories

25

Feb 2003

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2

Mar 2003

12:00 to
22:00

The Open Territories offer a diverse public forum of debate and investigation through the presentation of individual art works alongside a series of three user interactive workspace projects engaged in public domain and data based interventions. Each project carries its own agenda and vision concerning the freedom of movement within data environments in relation to DEAF"s Data Knitting theme and engage the visitor to explore the ever expanding networked, wireless and cartographic data-realms tracking and forming our communications space. In the sense that an open territory implies the navigation and manipulation of a space devoid of the constraints of ordered data structures, the projects and presentations question the commonly perceived notions of data collection, secure identities and communications tracing.

Seven artworks will be given the Arena stage in a series of public presentations while the Open Workspaces -- the Kingdom of Piracy, the Rhizome.org European Node and the Subtract the Sky project -- will stake out individual Arena Territories and be open to public participation and interaction during the entire program.

The political aspects of data knitting

The collecting and storing of data and the process of generating
knowledge can be described as a 'political' praxis. Various projects and
participants in DEAF03 focus on this dimension by addressing issues
like accessibility and disclosure; authorship and ownership; power and
control. Who decides what is included or excluded in our archives? What
are the socio-political implications of the ever-increasing interest in
data and data flows from corporations and governments?By visualizing
and analyzing complex data flows, artists make transparent the complex
relations and connections between economical, social and political
processes, aiming at exposing the structures, the importance of
meta-data and the underlying motives of collecting and structuring data
and information in today's information society.